On the disposal of the Prosecutor’s office of Taranto, police and coast guard have seized an area of about 70,000 square metres, subject to the protection of the landscape, in the coastal area of Marechiaro/San Vito for pollution offences and environmental disaster borne of the unknown. The inspections of the investigators revealed that in the area that faces the sea, eroded after a violent storm, was stratified in the soil a considerable amount of waste of all kinds (bricks, tires, plastics, ferrous materials), including sheet metal, eternit.

The Prosecutor’s office, considered that the wastes are causing serious environmental damage, also due to the leachate produced by all substances polluting underground, and to allow for the appropriate and subsequent rehabilitation works, has placed the budget sequestration in the area.

The complaint erata been presented in recent days by the environmentalist Luciano Manna VeraLeaks that after the seizure of the area commented: “it Remains a disconcerting fact that the junta in November 2019, and then a few months ago, had approved a project for the construction of a park, the Park, the Great Sea, in the area that in practice is a huge dump, open to the sky formed from all kinds of waste, including asbestos. It is hoped that the area can be, in short, made safe, and reclaimed for the citizens of taranto can regain possession of the green areas of the wet from our wonderful sea.” © Reproduction reserved